Senator Cornyn

Cornyn, Colleagues Call on Russia to Release Brittney Griner from Wrongful Detention

News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook Bipartisan Senate Resolution Urges U.S. Government to Press for WNBA Player’s Release, Supports All Prisoners Unjustly Imprisoned in the Russian Federation WASHINGTON –U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today led a bipartisan Senate resolution with Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) calling on the Russian government to immediately release […]

Cornyn: Biden Admin Doesn’t Care About Migrants or Border Communities

News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook The Biden Administration, including the President, the Vice President, and everyone who serves in the Biden Administration, simply does not care. They don’t care about the migrants who die en route to the United States. They don’t care about our border communities that are overrun […]

Cornyn: Focus Only on Weapons in Shootings Misses Potential Solutions

News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook As horrific as these incidents are, one of the abject lessons, I think, of what happened in Highland Park is the strictest gun laws in the nation did not prevent this terrible act. If we focus just on the instrumentality, on the tool, on the […]

Cornyn: Biden Doesn’t Care About Southern Border, Migrants Dying

News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook Make no mistake about it: what is happening at the border is a result of a policy failure of the Biden Administration. They apparently don’t care about the young women and girls who are sexually assaulted en route. They apparently don’t care about the migrants […]

Cornyn Presses Biden on PGA Investigation, Administration Contact with Saudis

News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook I am concerned about whether members of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, or any other member of your administration, was involved in the investigation recently being made public. I also have questions about whether your administration had any contact with the Saudi Arabian government […]

Cornyn Previews Texas Border Trip with Cruz, GOP Colleagues

News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook Later this week, I will be traveling back home to the Rio Grande Valley along with a number of my Republican colleagues so that they too can learn from the true experts about the border crisis. Migrants are dying, drugs are pouring into our country, […]

Cornyn Grills Abortion-on-Demand Advocate on the Value of Unborn Life

News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook Sen. Cornyn: ‘Do you think that a baby that is not yet born – let’s say, the day before this mother delivers – do you think that baby has value?’   Prof. Bridges: ‘I think that the person with the capacity for pregnancy has value, […]

Cornyn: Dems Again Push Tax Break for Manhattan Millionaires

News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook With voter confidence at a concerning low, our Democratic colleagues have made an interesting calculation. They’re trying to resurrect their Build Back Broke agenda. Working families in Texas should not be forced to subsidize the tax bill for Manhattan millionaires. It isn’t time to hand […]

Cornyn: Schumer Jeopardizing Bipartisan Semiconductor Funding for Doomed Spending Spree

News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook Earlier this summer, a conference committee was appointed and began negotiating a compromise bill that would finally fund the CHIPS Act and make other critical investments in our national security and competitiveness. But with the CHIPS funding on the five-yard line, the Majority Leader, the […]

Cornyn’s Mental Health and School Safety Bill Signed Into Law

News This bill includes important targeted reforms, complete with robust due process protections that I believe will keep our children and our communities safe while respecting Second Amendment rights. Will it save lives? I believe the answer to that is yes, and that makes this worth doing. Unless a person is adjudicated mentally ill or […]

VIDEO: On Fox, Cornyn Discusses the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act

News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook No parent wants to send their child to school fearful for their safety. This bill… does not infringe on the rights of law-abiding gun owners. They’re not the problem. I think we’ve threaded the needle in a way that protects the right of law-abiding citizens, […]

Cornyn’s Bipartisan Safer Communities Act Endorsed by Key Groups, Editorial Boards

News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook The bill preserves gun rights while trying to keep guns away from the dangerous. That’s a step forward. – WSJ Editorial Board WASHINGTON – A coalition of leading law enforcement, mental health, domestic violence, and education groups have endorsed Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)’s Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, […]

Cornyn, Bipartisan Group of Senators Announce Bipartisan Safer Communities Act

News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook WASHINGTON – Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) released the following statement: “Today, we finalized bipartisan, commonsense legislation to protect America’s children, keep our schools safe, and reduce the threat of violence across our country. Our legislation […]